Canace canadensis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1872 June -- Gideon Stone, one of the early settlers of this region tells me that he has frequently seen the Spruce Grouse drum. He describes the performance as follows: The male springs from the ground vibrating its wings rapidly and rises at an incline of about 45° to some horizontal branch ten or twelve feet above the ground, where it rests a moment and then returns to the ground on about the same incline also drumming as it descends. The sound thus produced is much like that of the Ruffed Grouse but lacks the preliminary, disconnected thuds, andis altogether shorter, more hurried, and not as loud, although it may be heard a considerable distance in still weather. 1873. June 20. An adult female with a chick about five days old were brought to me alive by one of the guides who took them on the Tyler Path. He said that there were ten young in the brood. He snared the female in the usual manner with a nooseof twine attached to the end of a short pole, passing the noose over her head. Aug. 13. Two young birds, a male and female in first plumage and about half grown, were killed on the Tyler Path, and brought to me. Their crops contained raspberries, blueberries, checkerberries, fir buds, and needles. 1874. July 28 Among the thickly growing young firs and spruces behind the mill, I came upon a brood of young Spruce Grouse about as large as Quail. They rose t with a heavy whirring to the tops of the low firs where they sat watching me, uttering occasionally a low whistling noise. The mother, also alighted on a fir near by and called incessantly kruek-kruck, krrr-kruok to her young. Approaching her cautiously I actually got near enough to prod her in the breast with the muzzle of my gun pushing her off the branch, when she flew rapidly with a loud whirring to another small tree and allowed me to approach quite as near again. Upon my withdrawing a few yards she began to call again, and the young birds answering she shortly after took wing and alighted among them. In flight and general altitudes I noticed nothing very different from those of the Ruffed Grouse. The young looked very like those of that bird at a corresponding age.